In July 2005 I went for another scan. I was advised to stop wearing under-wired bras as it was blocking the flow of lymph fluid, by “hot-spots” around the underarm area and under breast area – which showed up clearly on the scans.  Soft bras are much better and don’t restrict the flow.  The scan was fine – ...

I carried on with the diet and supplements. When I had been away at Christmas I ate really well and found that I could still enjoy a lot of good food without feeling that I was “depriving” myself of anything. However, having to watch what I ate all the time did get to me at times. I’m not the kind of person that responds ...

In September 2004 I visited my GP as I was suffering from bouts of diarrhoea and was worried that I was not absorbing my supplements enough.  He told me to take Imodium to stop it, but the symptoms persisted along with other IBS symptoms I had not experienced for a long time. During this time I lost a lot of weight, developed a high ...

The new health regime I had introduced to beat my breast cancer had two particularly noticeable effects. My reaction to B17 I was taking large doses of B17 in the form of up to 50 kernels a day plus two tablets twice a day.  The nutritionist was surprised I could tolerate so many, and certainly I felt a bit nauseous from time to ...

The results of the blood tests gave me even more conviction that surgery was the wrong route. When doctors take a tumour away, they cannot take the cancer away completely as it is not a local disease but a symptom of a disease.  If cancer is a rogue healing process, as many experts seem to think, taking healthy tissue away at the same ...

When my appointment with the consultant came around, I went with much trepidation, but at the same time was anxious to get it over with so I could know the worst.   My worst fears were confirmed when the consultant explained that because they had found some cancerous cells that were starting to come through from the original site in the ...

I will never forget the day I received the letter that every woman who has been for a routine mammogram dreads. I was called back to undergo a further scan as they found something that looked suspicious. I had noticed that my left nipple was starting to go inverted slightly – but it had been this way for about a year and up until then had ...